Hamas bans pornographic websites in Gaza Strip

* Good one, that: in EUrabia its the Muhammedans who are the biggest consumers of porn. Now if Hamas is going to take this away from them, will it encourage some of them to break with Hamas? Because if that doesn’t do it, what will?

Islamist group Hamas has told the main Palestinian telecoms company to block access to pornographic Internet sites in the Gaza Strip, a Hamas government official said on Monday.

Gaza’s Ministry of Communications said in a statement that telecommunications firm PALTEL has agreed to block Internet users in the Hamas-controlled coastal enclave from viewing adult websites starting this month.

“The aim of the move is to protect the Palestinian community from cultural pollution and to protect the young generations from the misuse of the Internet through viewing pornographic sites,” Hamas government spokesman Taher al-Nono said.

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An Internet provider in the Gaza Strip, which Hamas seized in June after routing President Mahmoud Abbas’s secular Fatah forces, estimated that about 400,000 Gazans surf the Web and said almost half of them were aged 18-35.

Attacks against video stores and Internet cafes have increased over the past two years. Some of the attacks had been claimed by radical Muslim groups who say such places run contrary to Islamic values.

Other Muslim countries such as Iran, Syria, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia also control access to some political, social and pornographic websites.

I think someone should do a leaflet-drop of pictures like this over some of these places.
The only bad thing that could happen is a series of rapes – not good of course, but the pictures could distract them for a while.

If these people could only lighten up, listen to music, dance, sing, play an instrument, watch comedy etc etc things would look a lot different.